Tik Tok Ban
After the U.S. Department of Justice determined that TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, was sharing American data with the Chinese Communist Party, a legislation was signed that the company must sell the app to a U.S. company by January 19, 2025. As of today, ByteDance has not complied with the legislation, leading to widespread speculation of TikTok getting banned in the U.S. However, the final verdict regarding the app will be decided by the Supreme Court, with the ruling possibly being announced before the legislation’s deadline.
While the app will not cease to exist, the service will cease updates, rendering the app unusable overtime. The only way for the app to be accessed in the U.S. would be through a Virtual Private Network (VPN) that can set a user’s location outside the States.